Liberty against the law: some seventeenth-century controversies

I. Introduction. 1. From A Jovial Crew (1641) to The Beggar's Opera (1728). 2. Customary Liberties and Legal Rights

II. Lawlessness. 3. Vagabonds. 4. The Poor and Wage Labour. 5. Robin Hood. 6. Robin Hood, Possessive Individualism and the Norman Yoke. 7. Forests and Venison, Game Laws and Poachers. 8. Smugglers. 9. Pirates. 10. Highwaymen. 11. 'Gypsy Liberty'

III. Imperial Problems. 12. 'Going Native': 'The Noble Savage'. 13. Impressment and Empire

IV. Christian Liberty. 14. The Ambiguities of Protestantism. 15. Church Courts and Fees. 16. Marriage and Parish Registers. 17. The Mosaic Law and the Priesthood of All Believers. 18. Antinomianism

V. Society, Law and Liberty. 19. History and the Law. 20. Liberty and Equality: Who are the People? 21. Whose law? and whose liberty? 22. 'Away with Lawyers!'

VI. Aftermath. 23. Gerrard Winstanley: The Law of Freedom. 24. The Society of Friends and the Law. 25. Apocalypse and After. 26. John Clare, 1793-1864. 27. Some Conclusions.